Sunday, December 27, 2009

How to memorize difference between little vs. big endian?

Finally i discovered how to memorize distinguishing between little/big endian notation!
Guess how? Just understand the terminology and interpretation comes automatically.

endian stands for "end" or start (beginning)

little endian -> "start/beginning is small", hence memory starts with little number (lsb)

big endian -> "start/beginning is big", hence memory starts with big number (msb)

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